The Miller's Blog

I am going to switch gears from my last few posts, and post what I stole from a friend off of Facebook. It is politically involved, but it is 100% truth. Supposedly this doctor that wrote this is from Jackson, but I'm not sure how truthful that is. Anyway, here it is:

Dear Mr. President :

During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive
shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and costly tattoos, who wore a very expensive
brand of tennis shoes and who chatted on a new cellular telephone equipped with a popular R&B ringtone . While glancing over her
patient chart, I happened to notice that her payer status was listed as "Medicaid"! During my examination of her, the patient informed
me that she smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and somehow still has money to buy pretzels and beer .
And, you and our Congress expect me to pay for this woman's health care? I contend that our nation's "health care crisis" is not the
result of a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. Rather, it is the result of a "crisis of culture", a culture in which it is perfectly
acceptable to spend money on luxuries and vices while refusing to take care of one's self or , heaven forbid , purchase health insurance.
It is a culture based in the irresponsible credo that "I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me" .
Once you fix this "culture crisis" that rewards irresponsibility and dependency, you'll be amazed at how quickly our nation's health care
difficulties will disappear .

Respectfully,
STARNER JONES, MD